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The former Love/Hate star added: “There was this feeling that we were heading towards something potentially very dangerous, like walking on the edge of a cliff.

“There’s a genuine fear - a palpable fear - that people were soon going to be silenced and forgotten. Isn’t that a terrifying prospect?

“We’re getting closer and closer to a right-wing political system that seems built on varnishing over the horrible reality of what they actually believe.

“They say one thing, but they think another and hope that we cannot tell the difference. We can’t normalise Trump and the people around him, or what they say and do. Racism is not normal. Hatred is not normal.”

She warned in a Sunday Business Post interview that “we can never be complacent about hard-fought right and freedoms”.